#Wii u guitar hero live for ps4 plus#
#Wii u guitar hero live for ps4 tv#

Like on stage playing in front of thousands of people, am I really going to look over to the sound mixing dude for a thumbs up? Let?s be honest though, are we really watching the video in the background while playing the song, or are we focusing on the note track? The view is fine, the direction is questionable.

Yes, with the live video, it feels a little bit like a Sega CD game. The twist here is that all the cartoony characters are gone, and instead you are playing in first person view on stage of a music festival. This is where you play the songs packaged on the disc to unlock them for Quickplay. Think of the Live mode as the old setlists or career modes. Guitar Hero Live brings you straight into a tutorial, and then totes you right out on stage where you play a set in the new Live mode.

The learning curve is steep, but thankfully I had some preview time at the LA event, so I was at least prepared for advanced mode when I opened up the package from Activision.

#Wii u guitar hero live for ps4 plus#

Plus there are more ways to combine the buttons and interweave the top and bottom keys making for an insanely challenging expert mode. It?s still no substitute for what you can achieve on a real guitar, but it feels more natural to me. Now the developers had the opportunity to create an approximation of real guitar chord shapes. Now we have two rows of three buttons on top of each other, white for the bottom row, and black for the top row. Gone are the colorful set of five buttons in a row.

The first major change you can?t help but notice when you open the box is the new guitar controller.

#Wii u guitar hero live for ps4 tv#

Those are changes for the good, and they have had me standing in front of a TV with a plastic guitar late into the night all over again. Guitar Hero Live, unlike Rock Band 4 ( our review here), changes up the formula a bit, both by the way we play and how we access music. It feels about right for me, as I can truly say I was missing music games and have really been looking forward to both this year. Activision and Harmonix both think that we?ve waited long enough with the return of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises. Five years ago we apparently ran the video game music genre into the ground.